The next morning, Sid tells the others his experience but none are convinced. Sid lights a fire for them, and believes that he has finally found respect, but they plan to sacrifice him by tossing him into a volcano Sid narrowly escapes. Sid is kidnapped by a tribe of mini-sloths who believe Sid to be a god. Ellie and Manny ultimately make up when they must co-operate to save the group when the ground cracks under their feet. Despite this bonding moment with Manny, she distances herself from him when he suggests "saving their species".
She finally realizes she is a mammoth and also expresses her suspicions about how different she was from other opossums. They discover an area which Ellie recalls as the place where she was adopted. After a dangerous encounter with Cretaceous and Maelstrom while crossing a pond, Sid prompts Diego to encourage him to admit and face his fears - Diego insists that "fear is for prey", so Sid points out that Diego is behaving as if he is the water's prey. Sid invites her to tag along with the group to escape the flood, and she brings her brothers. Manny is still worried about being the last mammoth alive and his family, who had been killed by humans, but is surprised when he encounters Ellie (Queen Latifah), a female woolly mammoth who believes she is an opossum and Crash and Eddie's adoptive sister. When Manny is briefly separated from them, Diego and Sid encounter two mischievous opossums named Crash (Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck) who drive them nuts by playing Whac-A-Mole with them. Manny is also having trouble fearing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left.ĭuring the evacuation, a glacier that contains two sea reptiles from the Mesozoic era, Cretaceous a Cymbospondylus and Maelstrom a Pliosauroidea, breaks off. A vulture (Will Arnett) tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have three days to reach it or die. However, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a dam that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater.
Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. Three more sequels were released - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012 and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. Despite receiving mixed reviews from film critics, The Meltdown was positively welcomed from audience and was a box office success by earning over $660 million. It was eventually released in 70 countries, with the last release being in China, on June 9, 2006. The film premiered in Belgium on March 1, 2006. The original voice cast - Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Chris Wedge - is joined by Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott and Josh Peck. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, co-director of the first film, with the music composed by John Powell. As the first sequel to the 2002 film Ice Age, it focuses on the herd escaping an upcoming flood, during which Manny finds love. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Ice Age: The Meltdown is a 2006 computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.